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Character Name

Tara

Meaning — In Persian, "tārā" means star — a luminous celestial body, used as a poetic and astronomical term across Persian and Urdu literary traditions. The star (setareh/tara) in Persian poetry is associated with beauty, fate, and the distant, guiding light that navigators and lovers alike follow across dark spaces.·Persian origin·Female·TAH-rah

Tara Tara in the Persian tradition carries the image of the distant but guiding star — beautiful, self-luminous, and oriented toward something beyond the immediate horizon. Characters named Tara in this tradition tend to be women of quiet, celestial composure who provide direction to those around them through their consistency and radiance.

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Tara ShiraziTara TehraniTara HosseiniTara MoradiTara KarimiTara Sadeghi

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